Yes, I know they have charged for years: I have read on other forums, various "guesses"; this is one of the little annoyances of sprint, if I were trying to decide between one carrier or the other.

I have had other carriers, who don't charge to forward, except the minutes used. Also the old bell south dcs( and I believe cingular currently) has what was called 2 in 1 forwarding in which calls would the sent to the handset, and another phone simultaneously; this was handy at the time and there was no charge for the forwarded call at all.

They charge so that buisness can't get a phone in most major cities, and call forward it to their offices elsewhere. This would allow them to have no long distance charges for them, or who's calling. If no charge and no mins, it becomes very cheap.

i aggree with the idea that it should just use regular minutes instead of that 10 cents stuff.

This is completely bogus, there are so many way for companys (individuals too) to get free and near free virtual local numbers now a days, this is not a concern. Just look at the vonage options for this..

I was just trying to see if anyone else found this to be annoying. I have both sprint and verizon, and find the call forwarding (on verizon) very useful, and use the don't answer portion most of the time--and pay the minute charges, which seems fair (as with regular telephone service). Eventually wilkl probably get rid of the extra line and this little "pisser" may determine which one I keep.

I read the posts about having a foreign number, etc---what a crock!--do any of the other carriers charge "extra" for call forwarding?

Foreign number, huh? Are you replying to my post? If so, I'd ask, who doesn't charge? Coming out of your minutes is *still* charging, and at that for service you're not using, the mobility portion of your mobile phone service.

Ya know if $0.10/minute for forwarded calls is a deal-breaker for you, I can't imagine there's going to be a carrier that doesn't have a deal-breaker.

Consider this also, perhaps if you're forwarding that many calls you may want to get a personal number which you forward at all times to whatever device happens to be convenient be it: mobile, home, direct inward dial at work, etc, etc.Finally consider that an estimated 5.7million people in the US have now ditched their copper for wireless only, what are they ...(continues)